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Natural Gas Rig Fire in the Gulf, Another Wakeup Call
Late last night, a natural gas drilling rig known as Hercules 265 exploded. The rig has now partially collapsed and is burning out of control, too dangerous for firefighters …
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Interactive Website Compares Alternate Energy Futures
The Two Energy Futures site allows users to visualize and explore two energy futures—one fossil fuel based and one based on clean energy—and learn about the impacts of the different fuels involved, such as tar sands, biofuels and shale gas.
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U.S. Agencies Plan to Eliminate True Organic Egg Production
Already the focus of controversy and threatened lawsuits, the USDA has been widely criticized for allowing giant “organic” factory farms, confining as many as 100,000 birds to a building, to skirt the requirements …
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Breaking: Unlimited Arsenic and Other Poisons Dumped Daily Into U.S. Waters
Today a coalition of environmental organizations and clean water groups released an eye popping new report highlighting the public health threats of toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants. Environmental experts from Waterkeeper Alliance …
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12 Arrested at Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion Site in Michigan
Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS) took direct action near Stockbridge, MI, yesterday, to halt construction of the Tar Sands pipeline 6B expansion project of Canadian corporation Enbridge …